> ... the impoverished masses rebelling against corrupt leaders and nepokids
... also describes the China's communist revolution, but also its Cultural Revolution. It describes the Occupy movement but it also describes the alt-right. Whether it's a good things or not depends on what kind of people, groups and values are driving it.
It's hard to tell from that NYT article what the situation is in Nepal. This sheds a bit more light;
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/nepal-communications-international/